Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lewis H. Lapham

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Karl Lagerfeld

Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

William Wycherley

In wine there is truth

Roman Proverb

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Henry David Thoreau

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

Herbert Gold

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

George Savile

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

Sherilyn Fenn

I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.

Andy Cohen

i have never been more than a dreamand the dreameris awake

Nirmala

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung